Sam Phillips

Bio: Sam Phillips is Senior Vice President, Information Security at Wells Fargo, responsible for establishing the enterprise security architecture including providing security architecture strategy and solutions, vendor and product evaluations, architecture consulting and education for all lines of business. Sam has extensive security industry experience in driving strategic business initiatives, educational development programs, and chairing or participating in large-scale projects focused on improving and implementing security at an industry level.

Prior to joining Wells Fargo, Sam served as Vice President and General Manager and Chief Information Security Officer for Samsung Business Services, responsible for building security support services for large global customers and developing the information security program. Sam served as the Chief Security Officer for Blackberry prior to joining Samsung and developed one of the first integrated physical and logical corporate security programs. In this role, he was also responsible for providing global security advisory services to Blackberry’s enterprise customers.

An industry veteran, Sam has held senior leadership and consulting roles at Bank of America and The Boeing Company, focusing on technology security and risk. He has been responsible for enterprise information security programs, information security architecture, identity and access management, security policy and standards, compliance and assessments, product and infrastructure security, risk management, and security innovation.

Sam earned a Bachelor of Science degree in computer science from Montana State University and a Master of Science degree in Information Systems Management from Seattle Pacific University. He is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional and a Certified Information Security Manager.